This Week in History:
The Battle of Kappel was fought on October 11, 1531. Swiss Roman Catholic cantons defeated the Protestant forces of Zurich. In the battle, reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli leader was killed.
October 12, 1773: America’s first asylum opened for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ in Virginia.
October 12, 1901: Theodore Roosevelt [1] renamed the “Executive Mansion” as “The White House”.
And on October 13, 1773, the Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier. [2]
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I recently added more than 250 rifle and pistol magazines to the Elk Creek Company [3] inventory. Many of these were dusted off from Jim’s Amazing Secret Bunker of Redundant Redundancy (JASBORR). Be sure to place your order while there is still a good selection.- JWR